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The understanding of your aircraft and its systems and how each contributes to safe flight is need-to-know-and-understand information.

Also, the principles that have been discovered about how an aircraft flies and how it can best be controlled are essential reading to any would-be pilot.

This volume of the Pilot's Manual series covers in detail, and in an easy-to-understand manner, the complexities of the aircraft's systems and how the pilot operates them.  It explains how an aircraft is able to fly and manoeuvre on its invisible cushion of air.

This understanding of the aircraft - how it is controlled, its systems and their operation - is fundamental to the safe, efficient conduct of flight operations and is an essential element in becoming a competent pilot.

This manual also covers the CASA syllabus requirements for this subject at both PPL and CPL examination level.